Galatta Ganapathy

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Galatta Ganapathy
Directed byKarthik Kumar
Written byRam Selva (dialogues)
Screenplay byKarthik Kumar
Story byRam Selva
Produced byR. Radhakrishnan
Starring Pandiarajan
Sanghavi
CinematographyRavisundaram
Edited byMahavishnu
Mazhaidasan
Music by Soundaryan
Production
company
Maruthi Films
Release date
  • 26 September 2003 (2003-09-26)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Galatta Ganapathy is a 2003 Tamil language comedy film directed by Karthik Kumar. The film stars Pandiarajan and Sanghavi, with Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Vinu Chakravarthy, Vadivukkarasi, Chitti Babu, Sethu Vinayagam, Keerthana, Pandu and Mahanadi Shankar playing supporting roles. The film, produced by R. Radhakrishnan, was released on 26 September 2003.

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Plot

Ganapathy (Pandiarajan) and Veerappan (Chitti Babu) are police constables in a village, they force the shopkeepers and the criminals to give them bribes. Veerappan is married to the greedy wife Muthulakshmi (Lekhasri) while Ganapathy is a single man. Ganapathy's mother Annapoorani (Vadivukkarasi) earns a living by renting her brother's houses, her brother left her his fortune and vanished. Annapoorani is arrogant and greedy, she makes everyone's life a living hell. Her docile husband Sundaram (Vennira Aadai Moorthy) does any other sort of domestic work, her elder son Jagan (Jagan) is living away from his wife, Ganapathy has to give his entire salary to his mother and her daughter Abi (Sujibala) is afraid of her.

Ganapathy then falls under the spell of Nandhini (Sanghavi), who was new to the village. He even stalks her to reveal his love, Nandhini eventually reciprocates his love. During a mass-marriage function, organised by the police, Ganapathy is forced by his superiors to marry Nandhini. Ganapathy comes along with Nandhini following their wedding, Annapoorani asks a dowry of 5 lakh of rupees and Nandhini accepts to pay later. The next day, to everyone's surprise, Nandhini takes charge as a sub-inspector at the village police station, she is an honest and upright police officer who fights against bribery. Nandhini then files a dowry harassment case against her mother.

Thereafter, Nandhini confronts Annapoorani on multiple occasions. In the meantime, Sundaram left the home and decides to work as a cycle rickshaw puller. Abi falls in love with her college mate Raja (Raja). Annapoorani then received money from the village bigwig Periyavar and tried to frame Nandhini for corruption, thus the anti-corruption bureau arrests Nandhini. One day, Annapoorani's brother (Sethu Vinayagam) comes back from pilgrimage and drives his sister out of his house. With her daughter, Annapoorani ends up on the street, Periyavar and his henchmen then kidnap her daughter. Nandhini and Ganapathy beat up Periyavar and his henchmen, and save Abi. Annapoorani then realises her mistakes. Therefore, Jagan gets back together with his wife, Abi marries her lover Raja, Sundaram comes back home while Nandhini and Ganapathy decide to finally consummate their marriage.

Cast

Production

Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Chitti Babu and Pandu were selected to act in this comedy film, with Pandiarajan playing the role of a police constable. After pairing with Ravali in Anbu Thollai , Pandiarajan wanted to pair again with her but the film director Karthik Kumar had chosen Sanghavi to play the female lead role. [1]

Soundtrack

Galatta Ganapathy
Soundtrack album by
Released2003
Recorded2003
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length22:07
Producer Soundaryan

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Soundaryan. The soundtrack, released in 2003, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by Piraisoodan, Muthu Vijayan, Ilaya Kamban and Manipriyan. [2]

TrackSongSinger(s)Duration
1"Kannimaikkum Nerathilay"Krishnaraj4:29
2"Vikkal Eduthukichuda" Sriram Parthasarathy, Pop Shalini 4:16
3"Pondicherry" Anuradha Sriram 4:32
4"Amma Appa Vilaiyaatu"Prasanna Rao, Srivarthini4:46
5"Neelangaray Anajlay" Manikka Vinayagam, Srivarthini4:04

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References

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  2. "Galatta Ganapathi (2003) - Soundaryan". mio.to. Retrieved 14 May 2018.